[IAEP] Questions to SLOB candidates

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 8 November 2011 00:04, Christoph Derndorfer
<e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sascha, you make an excellent point here, I was thinking along the same
> lines when I re-read the various candidate statements this morning.
>
> Personally I'd also be interested in taking this one step further and
> creating a lively debate. Two ideas I've been thinking about are:
>
> (a) An IRC discussion with all the candidates next Tuesday or Wednesday
> before the election starts. This would give all Sugar Labs members a chance
> to directly interact with the candidates by asking questions. Additionally
> it could lead to some interesting discussions among the candidates whereas I
> fear that discussions here on the list will be more unidirectional (e.g.
> with the candidates simply answering the questions Sascha mentions below but
> not commenting on each other's answers and ideas).
> (b) Organizing a Skype, Gtalk, or Google+ Hangout session with the same
> purpose. While text-based communication has some advantages (e.g. it's easy
> to search, reference, etc.) I personally really like hearing people's voices
> and real-time reactions to discussions and arguments.
>
> For all these things we could use a wiki page or even something like Google
> Moderator (http://moderator.appspot.com/) to collect questions from the
> community in advance.
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph

Considering that I'm a candidate, I don't want to interfere in the
process. However, I think this is a good idea in principle. I won't be
available next week (I'll be at the OSDC conference in Canberra [1]),
but I'm happy to participate otherwise.

Sridhar


[1] http://osdc.com.au/schedule/#australiastoughes